Plato and the Presocratics
... opposites he himself did not understand. But there is a second, more positive side to this story. On Plato’s view, the thesis of universal change holds true for things located in the physical realm, including human beings (cf. Symposium 207d). Although Eryximachus claims that ‘disharmony in harmony’ ...
... opposites he himself did not understand. But there is a second, more positive side to this story. On Plato’s view, the thesis of universal change holds true for things located in the physical realm, including human beings (cf. Symposium 207d). Although Eryximachus claims that ‘disharmony in harmony’ ...
A Realist Theory of Science
... complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: the mechanism of natural selection. We can easily imagine a world ...
... complex to be perceived, which had been going on for millions of years before him. But he could not, at least if his theory is correct, have produced the process he described, the intransitive object of the knowledge he had produced: the mechanism of natural selection. We can easily imagine a world ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... passions.22 We will cite, as an example, only those associated with Love. These observations, and many others that would take too long to report, have led me to conclude that when the understanding thinks of some object of love, this thought forms an impression in the brain which directs the animal ...
... passions.22 We will cite, as an example, only those associated with Love. These observations, and many others that would take too long to report, have led me to conclude that when the understanding thinks of some object of love, this thought forms an impression in the brain which directs the animal ...
Concepts and Objects
... stored.4 Re-inscribing Kant’s transcendental difference between noesis and aisthesis within nature, Sellars develops an inferentialist account of the normative structure of conception that allows him to prosecute a scientific realism unencumbered by the epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In ...
... stored.4 Re-inscribing Kant’s transcendental difference between noesis and aisthesis within nature, Sellars develops an inferentialist account of the normative structure of conception that allows him to prosecute a scientific realism unencumbered by the epistemological strictures of empiricism.5 In ...
Socratic Method.
... can act no differently. It is better to obey the gods than man. The unexamined life is not worth living. His pursuit of philosophy is following the instruction of the gods. ...
... can act no differently. It is better to obey the gods than man. The unexamined life is not worth living. His pursuit of philosophy is following the instruction of the gods. ...
methods of humanization - Center for Ethnography
... becomes recursive. Notes accumulate. The ends of defense advocates may differ from those of academic anthropology, but the tools of data collection seem more or less the same. What can anthropological method, and the data that it produces, become when the folks you study do very much what you do? In ...
... becomes recursive. Notes accumulate. The ends of defense advocates may differ from those of academic anthropology, but the tools of data collection seem more or less the same. What can anthropological method, and the data that it produces, become when the folks you study do very much what you do? In ...
PHI 110 Lecture 6 1 Today we`re gonna start a number of lectures
... problems, paradoxes reflected a too simple view of language and its use. In other words, it’s the result of treating words too simply. So to just take an example. One of the great perennial philosophical subjects that goes back to ancient Greece — it’s thousands of years old — is the question of the ...
... problems, paradoxes reflected a too simple view of language and its use. In other words, it’s the result of treating words too simply. So to just take an example. One of the great perennial philosophical subjects that goes back to ancient Greece — it’s thousands of years old — is the question of the ...
Ethan Frome - Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
... ficial phenomenon, and he adopted the Kantian view of words and concepts as obstacles to our coming to know reality, or Being. However, like Hegel, Heidegger believed that we can get closer to Being than Kant allowed, though not by adopting Hegel’s abstracted third-person pretense of Reason. Setting ...
... ficial phenomenon, and he adopted the Kantian view of words and concepts as obstacles to our coming to know reality, or Being. However, like Hegel, Heidegger believed that we can get closer to Being than Kant allowed, though not by adopting Hegel’s abstracted third-person pretense of Reason. Setting ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
Hinduism
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
... appears to be two because it can be approached by looking for the ground of things, or looking for the ground of the Self. Seeking to understand the ultimate nature of the world and the Self, it had been discovered that the same Self exists within all beings. Each person shares his or her deepest be ...
Chapter 2 Metaphysics, Fideism, Speculation
... of extended substance - and hence of the non-correlational reach of the mathematical discourse about bodies? His reasoning can be briefly recapitulated as follows: 1. I can prove the existence of a perfect, all-powerful God. We know that one of the three proofs for the existence of God ...
... of extended substance - and hence of the non-correlational reach of the mathematical discourse about bodies? His reasoning can be briefly recapitulated as follows: 1. I can prove the existence of a perfect, all-powerful God. We know that one of the three proofs for the existence of God ...
Philosophy 165: Epistemology
... (True, "it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt.") 5. Descartes believed that our intuition deceives us into accepting fallible beliefs as knowledge. (False, Descartes's claimed we could have infallible knowledge of certain metaphysic ...
... (True, "it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt.") 5. Descartes believed that our intuition deceives us into accepting fallible beliefs as knowledge. (False, Descartes's claimed we could have infallible knowledge of certain metaphysic ...
Philosophy as Quest - Oregon State University
... even close to that of the experts. Yet, there is one topic that no one else has a greater claim to expertise than you do: your own belief-system. If a main goal of philosophy is to increase wisdom, and self-knowledge is necessary for wisdom, then your personal self-investigation is a critical elemen ...
... even close to that of the experts. Yet, there is one topic that no one else has a greater claim to expertise than you do: your own belief-system. If a main goal of philosophy is to increase wisdom, and self-knowledge is necessary for wisdom, then your personal self-investigation is a critical elemen ...
What is Philosophy? Minds and Machines
... if this takes a lot of time. In fact, science is one example where philosophy became very successful (‘natural philosophy’). – Second, even if philosophy does not provide one with any clear answers, it may still be able to say that certain answers are better than others. – And third, even if philoso ...
... if this takes a lot of time. In fact, science is one example where philosophy became very successful (‘natural philosophy’). – Second, even if philosophy does not provide one with any clear answers, it may still be able to say that certain answers are better than others. – And third, even if philoso ...
What is Philosophy?
... if this takes a lot of time. In fact, science is one example where philosophy became very successful (‘natural philosophy’). – Second, even if philosophy does not provide one with any clear answers, it may still be able to say that certain answers are better than others. – And third, even if philoso ...
... if this takes a lot of time. In fact, science is one example where philosophy became very successful (‘natural philosophy’). – Second, even if philosophy does not provide one with any clear answers, it may still be able to say that certain answers are better than others. – And third, even if philoso ...
Does a Postmodernist Philosophy of Mathematics Make Sense
... among mathematics educators, by the postmodernist notion of “social constructivism” (White ...
... among mathematics educators, by the postmodernist notion of “social constructivism” (White ...
Epistemology Dehumanized
... “elucidations,” tested by “intuitions,” but for meticulous empirical descriptions and fruitful hypotheses, tested by standard scientific methods. The very idea of aiming at elucidations of brain-states is foreign to neurology. As to words, it has been more than half a century since Wittgenstein poin ...
... “elucidations,” tested by “intuitions,” but for meticulous empirical descriptions and fruitful hypotheses, tested by standard scientific methods. The very idea of aiming at elucidations of brain-states is foreign to neurology. As to words, it has been more than half a century since Wittgenstein poin ...
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... have. In fact it includes all of the virtues, when rulers govern wisely, when soldiers fight bravely, industry class works with energy and thrift, all obediently for Reason. According to Plato, Justice is more than an external adjustment of social functions in the individual; its existence is spirit ...
... have. In fact it includes all of the virtues, when rulers govern wisely, when soldiers fight bravely, industry class works with energy and thrift, all obediently for Reason. According to Plato, Justice is more than an external adjustment of social functions in the individual; its existence is spirit ...
Lecture 6 : The Concept of Mind in Upanisads
... coordinated by the mind. There are gross and subtle sense organs. Thinking, experiencing, remembering and knowing all are performed by the subtle sense organs, sukhma indriyas. The mind or the manas is one of the finest sukhma indriyas. One need to understand the true nature of these indriyas. As in ...
... coordinated by the mind. There are gross and subtle sense organs. Thinking, experiencing, remembering and knowing all are performed by the subtle sense organs, sukhma indriyas. The mind or the manas is one of the finest sukhma indriyas. One need to understand the true nature of these indriyas. As in ...
Artikel voor `de HTV` "Man is actually chaos"
... At this point, Fichte wanted to improve on Kantian philosophy. Philosophical rationalism has to presuppose a subject that is completely certain of itself, to provide the basis for all its endeavours. But how can a subject be assured of its own subjectivity—the more so if it can not even tell once an ...
... At this point, Fichte wanted to improve on Kantian philosophy. Philosophical rationalism has to presuppose a subject that is completely certain of itself, to provide the basis for all its endeavours. But how can a subject be assured of its own subjectivity—the more so if it can not even tell once an ...
Berkeley Reading
... have of these they acknowledge not to be the resemblances of anything existing without the mind, or unperceived, but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities to be patterns or images of things which exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, theref ...
... have of these they acknowledge not to be the resemblances of anything existing without the mind, or unperceived, but they will have our ideas of the primary qualities to be patterns or images of things which exist without the mind, in an unthinking substance which they call Matter. By Matter, theref ...
Philosophy of Science Summary Chapter 1: Rationalism and
... capacities. Our capacity to think generates ideas and concepts which we cannot arrive at by using our sensory capacities alone. Empiricism: not reason but sense experience is the ultimate source of knowledge. The senses are reliable indicators of what reality is like. Plato’s rationalism o Metaphysi ...
... capacities. Our capacity to think generates ideas and concepts which we cannot arrive at by using our sensory capacities alone. Empiricism: not reason but sense experience is the ultimate source of knowledge. The senses are reliable indicators of what reality is like. Plato’s rationalism o Metaphysi ...
Kinds of Things—Towards a Bestiary of the
... One of the weaknesses of auto-anthropology is that one’s own intuitions are apt to be distorted by one’s theoretical predilections. Linguists have known for a long time that they get so wrapped up in their theories that they are no longer reliable sources of linguistic intuition. Their raw, untutore ...
... One of the weaknesses of auto-anthropology is that one’s own intuitions are apt to be distorted by one’s theoretical predilections. Linguists have known for a long time that they get so wrapped up in their theories that they are no longer reliable sources of linguistic intuition. Their raw, untutore ...
Bataille Versus Theory - Gary Sauer
... knowledge of mortality. Death cannot be regarded as an object of knowledge because it cannot be managed or subordinated by thou Death is sovereign, hence inconceivable. Knowledge of our own m can only be peripheral to death itself. (Bataille’s other certainty, “t are not everything”, paves the way f ...
... knowledge of mortality. Death cannot be regarded as an object of knowledge because it cannot be managed or subordinated by thou Death is sovereign, hence inconceivable. Knowledge of our own m can only be peripheral to death itself. (Bataille’s other certainty, “t are not everything”, paves the way f ...
Simplicity - Heythrop College Publications
... the mystery of the human soul primarily as an explanatory problem and not an essential feature of our erotic everyday life. However, it is possible to adopt an analogical middle path between the extremes of naive BBC4 journalist, who promise us to ‘unlock the secret of the human soul’, and sophistic ...
... the mystery of the human soul primarily as an explanatory problem and not an essential feature of our erotic everyday life. However, it is possible to adopt an analogical middle path between the extremes of naive BBC4 journalist, who promise us to ‘unlock the secret of the human soul’, and sophistic ...